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The temperamental nude : class, medicine and representation in eighteenth-century France / Tony Halliday.
LIBRA PQ2105.A2 S8 v.2010:05
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halliday, Tony (Anthony)
- Series:
- SVEC ; 2010:05.
- SVEC ; 2010:5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, French--18th century.
- Art, French.
- Medicine in art.
- Social classes in art.
- Figurative art, French--18th century.
- Figurative art, French.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2010.
- Contents:
- The natural order
- The labour of love
- Temperament and the body
- Temperament and the ideal : ancient and modern
- The citizen body : the politics of abstraction
- A body one and indivisible : Jacobin representations of the people
- The labels of Hercules : representing the body after Thermidor
- The trouble with Tatius : David's Sabines and the end of public art.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780729409940
- 0729409945
- OCLC:
- 619593596
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